$110 Tasting Menu Features Dirt — Yes, Dirt

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People typically try to avoid eating dirt. Sure, there's the "five second rule," and maybe that friend who had a particularly convincing triple-dog-dare back in elementary school, but after that dirt is pretty much considered inedible. Yet one restaurant in Japan — a fine-dining restaurant, in fact — is charging patrons to do the unthinkable: eat dirt.

According to Rocket24, a French restaurant in Japan called Ne Quittez Pas created a dirt tasting menu. It might make more sense if the restaurant was paying customers to taste the dirt-containing food, but instead the tasting menu costs $110. Even more disconcerting is that people are forking over the cash to dine.

The menu consists of dirt prepared in several different ways with other ingredients that probably attempt to mask the dirt flavor. The first course is a potato starch and dirt soup followed by a salad with dirt dressing. The main course includes a dirt risotto and a dirt aspic as well as seafood. Dessert is dirt ice cream, dirt gratin, and dirt mint tea.

The dirt itself was supplied to the restaurant by a special company called Protoleaf. They use coffee grinds and palm fiber to create the special compost used by the chef at Ne Quittez Pas. Amazingly, this isn't the first time this chef has cooked with dirt. He previously won a Japanese cooking show by making a dirt sauce.